Leela Sahu(22) from Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh says she has no interest in politics. Yet she found herself in the crosshairs of the local BJP leadership when lack of basic infrastructure like a bad road appeared in her posts.
Raising the instances of targeting of migrant workers from West Bengal in the Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (July 16, 2025) hit the streets in Kolkata and said protests would rage across the country if Bengalis continued to be harassed.
A key witness has told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that the terrorists who carried out the deadly April 22 attack in Pahalgam fired four shots into the air in celebration after killing 26 civilians in Baisaran Valley.
These range from ministerial visits to revival of direct flights and pilgrimages. To call a spade by no other name, necessity rather than mutual goodwill seems to be at work.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (July 15, 2025) said that the central government does not offer flood and disaster relief funds for her State but offers help to Assam in times of need.
Union Minister Amit Shah to lead talks with the state ministers and the central ministers on the long pending issues on Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday appointed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Jammu and Kashmir deputy chief minister Kavinder Gupta as the lieutenant governor of Ladakh, besides naming Prof Ashim Kumar Ghosh and Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju as the new Governors of Haryana and Goa, respectively.
External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar recently embarked on a significant diplomatic mission to Singapore and China, visiting both countries from July 13 to 15.
The President has nominated former diplomat Harsh Shringla, Special Public Prosecutor in Ajmal Kasab case Ujjwal Nikam, historian Meenakshi Jain, and Kerala teacher C. Sadanandan Master to the Rajya Sabha, marking an entry of two high-profile people to the Upper House.
